About

Joe Hemes has been focusing on the manipulation of light to create a mystical experience since 1995.  His illuminated sculptures cast shadows, project color, and weave a tapestry of light projections. He loves to work with many forms and materials.

He regularly shows work in galleries around the state, with large-scale installations commissioned for schools, lobbies, event spaces, markets and small scale commissions for private residences.

Joe received a Masters of Architecture at Montana State University and studied craft at Haystack Mountain School in his home state of Maine, where he has been widely exhibited.  He has earned awards as a LEED architect, photographer and sculptor.  Joe has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts/Maine Arts Commission and a Haystack Fellowship.

For quite sometime, Joe has been creating illuminated sculptures, to tell stories addressing Climate Change, in the hopes it enlightens enough people to Stop Global Warming and save earth’s amazing web of life.